Sunday, July 1, 2007

All of those Middle Eastern countries are the same anyway, right?

An image courtesy bobharris.com: This map was shown on an episode of Anderson Cooper 360 concerning refugees from the war in Afghanistan. The country that is labeled Afghanistan is, well, actually Syria.
Another map was broadcast on the AC360 episode following Larry King's interview with Michael Moore on Friday. The map showed Iraq and its neighbors with Syria again being mislabeled as Afghanistan. Also, the country to the south has apparently changed its name to "Saudia Arabia."
How are Americans ever going to be able to understand the crises in the Middle East fully if our news networks can't even tell us where the countries are located? Since CNN isn't going to do it:


(Image courtesy mideastnews.com)

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